Making Tax Digital will impose significant additional tax compliance costs on small businesses for little or no medium term benefit, tax and small bus...
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View articleThe drive towards a fully digital tax regime is an admirable one, but mandation is simply wrong, according to one of the UK's most senior tax technolo...
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View articleThe UK tax gap fell in 2014-15 to its lowest-ever level of 6.5%, revealed official statistics published today Read More...
View articleChanges to the tax system is urged to support the growth of entrepreneurs, found a report from the Grant Thornton UK, the Institute of Directors, and ...
View articleThe EC has been instructed to draft a European Union (EU) directive authorising an EU financial transaction tax, which would apply to ten of the EU’s ...
View articleGovernment's estimate of a £400m admin saving from Making Tax Digital is way off - and is instead a huge cost burden, warns Lamont Pridmore chief exec...
View articleHMRC is continuing to ramp up the number of raids on premises it carries out as part of criminal investigations, searching 761 properties in the last ...
View articleLord Howard Leigh of Hurley discusses the government’s initiatives to mitigate tax avoidance and evasion Read More...
View articleThe demand for tax advisory services remains high and this looks to continue; but fee pressure is expected in relation to compliance services as the “...
View articleWhile some resistance to change is to be expected, the degree of controversy surrounding HMRC's Making Tax Digital proposals has surprised the governm...
View articleKevin Reed discusses the worrying findings from HMRC on micro-businesses' problems handling Real-Time Information, and the latest thoughts on how acco...
View articleClaims for UK Patent Box tax reliefs reached £342.9m in the first year of its existence, official statistics show Read More...
View articleEU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager has defended the decision to order technology giant Apple to pay €13bn (£11bn) in back taxes to the Iri...
View articleCompanies received £2.45bn in tax relief for research and development last year, with claims rising to 22,445, an increase of £675m or 38% on the prev...
View articleThe director of a building firm in West Wales has been disqualified from acting as a director for under-declaring sales on VAT returns. Read More...
View articleThe number of businesses whose assets were seized by HMRC in order to settle outstanding debts grew sharply in the last year; up 145%, from 649 in 201...
View articleAccountancy Age is delighted to reveal the shortlists for the 2016 British Accountancy Awards Read More...
View articleSmall businesses should have lower corporation tax, MGI Worldwide research claims Read More...
View articleThe Apple Tax situation; Accountants replaced by robots; and The Accountancy Age Top 50+50; all discussed by head of editorial Kevin Reed Read More...
View articleThe former owners of a Maidenhead motor dealership who illegally claimed an £86,000 VAT repayment have been sentenced Read More...
View articleColin imagines how Apple's logo might change in the wake of the EC's ruling over its Irish tax arrangements Read More...
View articleA ruling from the European Commission could force Apple to pay billions of euros in back taxes over the company’s tax arrangements with the Irish gov...
View articleFreelancers and micro-businesses still need more information about the government’s plans to make tax digital Read More...
View articleNew dividend tax is an attack on small business owners and is acting against the best interests of the UK economy, warns Top 50 accountants, Bishop Fl...
View articleThe Treasury is consulting on how businesses remunerate their staff to assess whether companies are artificially using benefits in kind to avoid tax R...
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